Boy, Alaska Air has been in the news a lot recently. Remember last week, when the guy went into a rage over his neighbor’s overhead light? And now this story from CNN. Imagine you are on a flight. You’re super excited about your exit row seat, with all that extra room. You get settled, look out the…
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Seriously y’all, put on your seatbelts
Have you ever woken up from a nap and not known where you were or what’s going on? Yeah, it’s happened to me too. Evidently, it has also happened to pilots….. The Home Warrior sent me this article yesterday: “Pilot Mistakenly Sends Plane into a Dive.” The title kind of gets you, right? You want…
Apparently business travelers are really just fraudsters. Awesome.
Yesterday, CNN had an article about business travelers and expense reports that got me pretty riled up. The point was that people are getting creative about how to cheat the system, even going as far as buying fake receipts online and then filling them out to be reimbursed. “Those items can include everything from an…
Travel News This Week
It’s early in the week, but there are already some interesting travel stories out there. CNN has an interesting look into the future of airport security. What does the future hold? Well, thermal lie detector tests and cloned drug and illness sniffing puppies, for starters. Yowza! Worried about keeping clean on the road? MSNBC has…
Outsmart the Airlines!
As we have all probably realized by now, the airlines have figured out how to charge us for just about everything, with no plans to stop. With fewer, but fuller flights, and those a la carte fees, airlines are making more money than they’ve made in a long time, at the travelers’ expense. That makes…
Good News, Bad News: Airlines
Welcome to the first edition of Good News, Bad News. Today we will be focused on airlines, specifically American and Continental. Good news: MSNBC is reporting that American Airlines is expanding its use of “mobile boarding passes” to 19 new airports. I have never used this service, but it sounds very cool, and incredibly convenient.…
